Rouge

Rouge

1987 · 96 min · CN · 7.4 (96 votes)
Dir. Stanley Kwan Kam-Pang · Starring Anita Mui Yim-Fong, Leslie Cheung, Alex Man Chi-Leung, Emily Chu Bo-Yee, Irene Wan, Tam Sin-Hung · Music Michael Lai Siu-Tin

“They loved across two generations and two different worlds.”

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Amid the opulent teahouses of 1930s Hong Kong, a humble courtesan and the wayward scion of a wealthy family fall in love and embrace death by suicide pact. Fifty years later, her ghost returns to find him, drawing a young contemporary couple into her quest to rekindle a passion that may be as illusory as time itself.

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A spectral romance unfolds across decades, blending ethereal beauty with a profound sense of longing. It's a melancholic, dreamlike journey through memory and lost love, wrapped in a hauntingly atmospheric aesthetic.

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